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December 3, 2024 • 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Just About Almost Definitely/Can't Be Worse... Can It?/Dude, Where's My Plane?/Carpet Questions/Car Questions

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
There and welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday or the
best buts from the microsting breakfast on news Talks.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
He'd be in a sillier package.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I am being heartened today we all can transport goes
back to the council running it.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
That is, is this good or bad? In New Zealand?
Is cutting some flights the more flights? Is this good
or bad?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Order are going with nylon carpet not will carpet?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is this good or bad? And the new Jaguar is
a good or bad?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
But before any of that, so we're gonna We're finally
going to sort jobs ecer once and for all, and
those seeking jobs will be made to do them wherever
they are.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
So from our it worked fine, even though many didn't
think it would. File Two things thing number one those
benefits sanctions, the hand ringers argued were unfair and not nice.
Turns out virtually no one's hit red, remember that green
orange red. All the government ever asked in introducing them
was you do your bet. You are not sanctioned for
not having a job. You are sanctioned for not trying.

(01:36):
Virtually everyone is doing their bit. One percent are on red.
Now those are the ones you can't help. They don't
want help, they don't want to work, they don't want
to contribute. That's on them. Most interesting thing, by the way,
the Prime Minister said Monday as they announced their new
support program for those looking for work, is in many
cases we're down to the nitty gritty. The current rate
of unemployment a bit under five percent isn't actually that
high Historically, mostly if you lose your job, you go

(01:59):
get another one. So as moving town reasonable, I mean
the answer is yes. I mean, if you're sixty two
spent your whole life in a small town, I guess
maybe not. But I noted with interest and those mills
in the Central North Island closed, a lot of people
instantly said they're off to Australia. I mean a lot
of people generally have been off to Australia lately. So
moving for lifestyle or work isn't clearly a major hurdle.

(02:19):
So why would we think it would be one to
find a job locally. Simple truth is you either want
to work or you don't. You're either driven or you aren't.
So some sanctions the thread of a kick in the pants.
Not really the end of the world that it was
made out to be. Is it second to Papa charging tourists?
This was bad news? Apparently we would put people off.
Apparently seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in tickets in

(02:40):
two months are pretty much exactly the name of a
number of tickets they thought they would. They're now filling
a funding gap by letting people know, especially internationals, nothing's free.
So once again, not really the end of the world.
My guess is the new entry fee to come into
the country that'll be the same prices went up end
of the world. A price to end of the national
parks will be the same start charging end of the world.

(03:01):
The cost of a visa will be the same price
went up. Oh, they won't come. We need to break
the mentality that the government, I, EU and me pay
for everything. It isn't real, but it is a habit.
What is real. There's a few rules and a few
charges are only an impediment if you think they are.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
There.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Does seem to be a line of thinking that has
emerged from the.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Far left.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
That people shouldn't have to work if they don't want to.
And I mean, I consider myself a bit of a
lefty liberal, but I don't fully understand that.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
It goes it rubs me the.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Wrong way, and I don't quite understand how that's supposed
to work.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Bring on the robot apocalypse. Maybe it's a rewrap. Bring
on the at apo apocalypse. Definitely.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
We hate the cones, we hate the strange decisions, we
hate the cycle ways.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
And now Jane Brown's going to have more of a say,
said Girt.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
With apologies to the rest of the country. A quick word,
if I might, on the announcement yesterday from the Transport
Minister in the Auckland Mayor on the future of Auckland
Transport and the desire by the government to strip them
of a large chunk of what they do. Firstly, it
was close to another announcement of an announcement. First they
got to write the legislation, then introduce the legislation, then
send it off to a select committee. It is only
at that point the next stage of the process starts

(04:34):
and that will take months. The minister wanted it all
up and running and sorted. I think by about twenty
seven I mean, we've got an election before then, for
goodness sake. The upside is Auckland Transport gets what was
coming to them basically at a arrogant, incompetent, belligerent and
of little practical use to wider Auckland. They are a
fifdom of the worst sort and have got their come upance.
They have buggered Auckland Transport wise. Downside, the power taken

(04:56):
from them ends up with the council. The theory is
the council are accountable to the people, which on paper
is true. In reality, not a lot of people actually vote,
and the people they vote for not all, but a lot,
and not the sort of people you would want to
be running a lot of important stuff. The proof of
that is Auckland and the state of it. It is
not a great council. It is not frequented by great people.
Hence the idea of an at type operation staff by

(05:20):
high performing people who actually bring expertise to a high
wire job like transport in the nation's largest city and
biggest economy. So neither options really fill you with confidence.
Forced with a gun to my head to make a choice,
I would go with what the government has decided, but
only because at is such an abject and obvious failure.
Of course, it would be nice to think we all

(05:41):
decide that participating in local democracy is a good thing,
and maybe, just maybe, if we see a council making
bigger and better and bolder decisions, we might like to
back that with an increased turnout once every three years.
But the overarching lesson, and I hope this sinks in
well beyond Auckland Transport, to the many other pyctoms of
this country who think they know best. If you aren't
accountable and you run away with yourself, it might just

(06:03):
be they pull a rug out from under you.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, as I said, and my other very successful podcast
news Storos, they've been earlier this morning. You do have
to be a build of it, careful what you wish for.
I'm not quite sure. I guess we'll have to wait
and see whether the council are going to do a
better job of running Auckland Transport.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Than Auckland Transport work re wrap.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Surely they can't do a worse job. I guess that's
what we're thinking. Hey, speaking of doing a good job
or not any zealand cutting some more flights.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Off here schedule.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I've got to say, you've got to save you every
cent these days, don't you can.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
We come to wear New Zealand just in time for
the Christmas season to piss you off. So what they're
doing is they're cutting back on their domestic services yet again. Now,
under normal circumstances, what happens is they go, well, we've
got no engines and we've got no planes, and so
you go, well, that's not very good. But nevertheless, this
has got nothing to do with that. This time. It's

(07:03):
got to do with lack of demand. So under normal
circumstances you go fair enough of no and wants to fly,
then you know why put a plane in the air.
But of course we've got this unfortunate set of circumstances
in this country where we don't have quite enough airlines
to bring in real competition. So there is that ongoing belief,
rightly or wrongly, that he in New Zealand might be
just dominating that domestic market a wee bit much and

(07:26):
a little bit too much control. Therefore they can jurymander
the prices to suit their circumstances, and therefore by pulling
back in certain markets and certain services, they say two
percent of the schedule. This is between February and June,
so it depends on where you are and where you're
flying and what you're playing. But it's the old you know,

(07:46):
there's a certain angst anyway about a in New Zealand
at the best of times, and those sort of announcements
come to Christmas season don't really go down that well,
do they.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
So interesting experience or a series of experiences with the
New Zealand over the weekend, I took my mother down
in my brother's sixtieth birthday. She's not particularly ambulatory these days,
so I booked a wheelchair that worked very well, and
they couldn't do enough for us, you know, got us

(08:14):
onto the plane first, you know, jump all the queues, wheelchair,
wait another wheel chair waiting at you at the other end.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
That part of it was great.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
The flight being delayed for an hour on Friday afternoon
wasn't so good. The message on Saturday morning that informed
me my return flight had been canceled, my return fly
on Sunday afternoon, that wasn't so good. And then the

(08:47):
fact that I could I had a choice of a
flight that was leaving fifty minutes later than the one
I'd booked or one that was going to leave at
eight o'clock in the morning obvious sudden so that wasn't
going to work either.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
That wasn't so good.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
And then that flight also left late, so they made
me change to another fly which then left late. It
was already late, left later, and they're canceling more flights
for everybody. So swings and roundabouts the rewrapped, all right,

(09:24):
So this is a strange one, this one coming Aura.
They've got a lot of carpet put in a lot
of houses and it's.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Not going to be well.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
As part of Scrutiny Week financi elect Committee yesterday, there
reason I raise this now is kaying Aura. They were
sort of defending themselves, but Willis was there saying that
kaying Aura cost twelve percent more to build a house,
and Simon Muter, who's their chairperson, he goes, well, there's
a few things around that, and you know, we've got
to build them properly because some of the tenants tend
to smack holes in the wall and stuff like that.

(09:57):
So you want to put some good fittings in place,
and we need to maintain them, perhaps more than an
average house might need to be valenttained. However, once he
busied himself defending all of that, they did say they'd
brought in a typ this year to reduce their unit
cost by ten percent. But you think about it, even
if you're reduced by ten ten percent of what hundreds
of millions of dollars, So they need to sharpen their

(10:18):
pencil and they might have been able to do that
with a little bit of wool.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, So if they are going died n Eyeline rather
than will is that carpet being made in New Zealand?
Are they buying that off in New Zealand firm? Are
they helping the New Zealand economy? They're keeping New Zealand
jobs here in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I'm sure the rerap we're.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Going to finish up here discussing the new Jaguar. So
that's a funny looking thing, this concept car Richard Hammond,
he seemed to like it. Mike Hosking seems to like it.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
So Jaguar did the ads the other day and they
were out there. There's no question about that. They weren't
personally to my taste, but then they're only ads. So
what they need to do is rein vent themselves. What
they are doing is reinventing themselves. And Elon Musk, who's
a hot head and an idiot, came out immediately and

(11:15):
he go, do you sell cars? And I thought, oh, yeah,
he doesn't get what's happening here. So what's happening here
is you launch the campaign, you get people talking, now
right or wrong? Did people talk? You bet their talk?
Name me the last campaign globally for a car or
indeed anything that created the sort of noise that Jaguar
managed to create the other day, and there hasn't been
one for the bug who the Bugger ad, Yeah it

(11:37):
could be, but it's a long time ago, Glenn Boomer.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Right.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
So then they come up with a car as of yesterday,
the Type zero zero. So this is where I think
we're dealing with potentially a stroke of sheer genius because
the car, to my eye, actually, let me give you
a real critics answer. My wife said, and I quote,
I want the pink one. Now, this is not a

(12:01):
woman who is in love with cars, interested in cars
er all. But when a woman sits down and sees
something goes, I want the pink one. And she was
referring to the car head by the way, you're in
the car itself. Look look it up. I'm sorry now
that was you, not May. I was doing it cleanly.
I have a look at the car itself. It's beautiful

(12:24):
and it looks very much like the rolls Royce Specter
did in concept form. The picture you look at will
not be what the car looks like in the real world,
for fairly obvious reasons. That's how the car industry works.
But you got the ad, you got the car. The
car is going to become a reality. It's got the hype,
it's got the noise, it's done essentially everything. In so

(12:44):
far as you heard Richard Hammond say earlier on, he
likes what they're doing. He likes the look of the car.
It might well just be in a couple of years time.
They were way brighter than most people saw them, which
is good. I wish them well.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, just saying because it's full of electric. I thought
everybody was giving up on electric. I mean, I'm cas
shopping at the moment. I'm going hybrid because I'm too
kid of either ice or call of electric. So hopefully
it's a heavy medium. But I don't think that the
new Deegg is coming in in a hybrid. It's full electric.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't know what's going on, which is usually how
I feel at the end of these podcasts. Actually, now
that I don't think of it, I'll see if I
feel any more informed tomorrow when we meet again for.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Another reret.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
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